" Are we alone ? " The very meaning of human life on the planet earth
is tied up with this question. If you believe in a somewhat traditional
God, then you must not suppose that HE is obsessed with HUMAN life
here-and then mostly with our rather disordered sex life.
I recall Carl Sagan's passion for this question in " Contact " and his humane compassion for people of faith. In his TV series " Cosmos " he tells the viewers that " we are made of star stuff ".
So if we have any meaningful future as a species it must be OUT THERE.
The truth might ultimately confirm religious hope. Or it might confirm the H.P. Lovecraft nightmare vision of " cosmic horror " and hateful OLD ONES. Lovecraft thought that knowledge itself will some day undermine the sanity of the human race.
That earth like planet is 1400 light years away. The recent exciting Pluto probe took ten years. If we could send a spaceship there going at the speed of light, we would get no ANSWER until has passed 1000+400 years.
A famous English poet writing about human vanity said that all we really need in THIS life is faith, hope, and love.Mostly HOPE !
I recall Carl Sagan's passion for this question in " Contact " and his humane compassion for people of faith. In his TV series " Cosmos " he tells the viewers that " we are made of star stuff ".
So if we have any meaningful future as a species it must be OUT THERE.
The truth might ultimately confirm religious hope. Or it might confirm the H.P. Lovecraft nightmare vision of " cosmic horror " and hateful OLD ONES. Lovecraft thought that knowledge itself will some day undermine the sanity of the human race.
That earth like planet is 1400 light years away. The recent exciting Pluto probe took ten years. If we could send a spaceship there going at the speed of light, we would get no ANSWER until has passed 1000+400 years.
A famous English poet writing about human vanity said that all we really need in THIS life is faith, hope, and love.Mostly HOPE !
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" This older, bigger cousin to Earth is
called Kepler-452b. "
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